WARMIES RESTRUCTURED

Tim Blair

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Saturday,
January,
12,
2013,(1:40pm)

It’s a sign:

The New York Times will close its environment desk in the next few weeks and assign its seven reporters and two editors to other departments. The positions of environment editor and deputy environment editor are being eliminated …

“It wasn’t a decision we made lightly,” said Dean Baquet, the paper’s managing editor for news operations. “To both me and Jill [Abramson, executive editor], coverage of the environment is what separates the New York Times from other papers. We devote a lot of resources to it, now more than ever. We have not lost any desire for environmental coverage. This is purely a structural matter.”

“Absolutely,” responds James Delingpole. “It’s what newspapers always do when they’re committed to a particular field: close down the entire department responsible for covering it.” Further from the Times:

Baquet said editors are also considering whether religion reporting could benefit from this type of change.

BYRON BAY has had its worst property year in more than a decade and it’s not just the market that’s to blame. Rising sea levels, uncertainty about holiday rentals and unrealistic price expectations are also playing a part in the property slump....Mr Silk is also optimistic that people will continue to buy on the Belongil beachfront despite rising sea levels.

Jacko replied to Harry
Sat 12 Jan 13 (04:24pm)

Ben’s time has passed. The SMH now has a Carbon economy editor, who writes stories about how dry bush in hot weather is a fire risk.

mr.simmon replied to Harry
Sun 13 Jan 13 (04:24pm)

I feel sorry for this Hannam bloke, and doubt the SMH will be able to justify the expense of having him for much longer. Today’s effort is more of the same; he attempts to justify a tired QLD weather roundup with local colour:
Nigel, who was cooling down at the Birdsville Hotel bar but was shy about giving his surname, said it was so hot ‘‘the trees are chasing the dogs’’.

‘‘Hoping that they pee on ‘em,’’ he said.

If this weather wasn’t completely predictable for this time of year there would be no need for these jokers to dress it up.

It’s just like John Fox telling the whole Broncos backline they’re all doing great so they’ll all be traded to the KC Chiefs. Naaaahhhhhhhhhh.....

The blink comparator below shows the huge changes which have been made to the US temperature record since 1999. The past has been massively cooled, and the present has been massively warmed. A cooling trend has been turned into a warming trend, by adjusting the data.

Westy replied to Westy
Sun 13 Jan 13 (05:20pm)

Yes Walter. Makes one wonder if the restructure is to save the poor babies from the humiliation of reporting the facts coming into light.

What could 7 reporters and 2 editors possibly find to write about?

Must be the only people on the planet who have read the IPCC 2007 report.

Considering how much money the NYT is losing, these days, they had to cut somewhere. Couldn’t cut the anti-guns desk, nor the abortion desk, nor the fashion desk, and especially not the Obama-Is-Great desk.

What better way to staunch protests at worsening economic and life conditions than to make it feel like an honourable job/duty of the people to save “Gia”. At the same time, they used this “science” as new pagan religion to further push out the Christianity they hate and despise and most of all, fear? Gaia worship, the earth “mother”, has been pushed in popular culture oozing out of the West for a better part of the past 1.5 decades. This is a religion replete with an army of priests, called government grant scientists. click